Chanda Rule: Sapphire Dreams

This Chicago-born, Vienna-based vocalist draws from neo-soul and R&B, as much as jazz, and digs much deeper on her impressively...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May

Aaron Goldberg | Gregory Hutchinson | Joshua Redman | Reuben Rogers

Redman's recent gig at the Barbican with his Old and New Dreams project showed him to be on excellent form...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2019

Fabrizio Bosso: Duke

This is the warm-toned, suave Italian trumpeter's 17th album as bandleader and fourth for Verve, playing the hits of Duke...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Brian Ho: Organic

San José-born Hammond B3er's quartet (with guitarist Calvin Keys) includes a persuasive time-honoured hard bop treatment of Amy Winehouse's ‘Rehab’....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Jimmy Giuffre/Jim Hall Trio: Complete Studio Recordings

For once someone got the billing spot-on. Jim Hall wasn't employed just to strum the appropriate chords while Giuffre flitted...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Alan Barnes/David Newton: Ask Me Now

Alan Barnes | David Newton

These two are old hands at this. Ever since they met at Leeds School of Music four decades ago, Barnes...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018

Ahmad Jamal: Live in Marciac August 5th 2014

Ahmad Jamal | Herlin Riley | Monolo Badrena | Reginald Veal

“I live until he makes another record”: Miles Davis famously acknowledged Ahmad Jamal's influence over his own, revolutionary output in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2015

Elton Dean's Ninesense: The 100 Club Concert 1979

Alan Skidmore | Elton Dean | Harry Beckett | Harry Miller | Jim Dvorak | Keith Tippett | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Marc Charig | Nick Evans | Radu Malfatti

The debt owed by British jazz to the Blue Notes/Brotherhood of Breath is immediately apparent here. All but Tippett and...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012

Fredrik Lindborg Trio and String Quartet: Riedel

Amalie Stalheim | Daniel Fredriksson | Daniel Migdal | Fredrik Lindborg | Henrik Naimark Meyers | Martin Sjöstedt | Yivali Zilliacus

Georg Riedel is one of the pillars of Swedish jazz. A bass player par excellence, his first name gig was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022

Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah: Ruler Rebel

Braxton Cook | Chief Shaka Shaka | Christian Scott | Cliff Hines | Corey Fonville | Elena Pinderhughes | Joe Dyson Jr. | Joshua Crumbly | Kris Funn | Lawrence Fields

Is this the future sound of black American jazz – an inclusive yet rhythmically complex groove based music that owes...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017